If we lived in a country with socialized health care, this type of lawsuit would not happen. The parents would not be left with a lawsuit as their only option to fund the lifetime of care that this kid needs.

It's amazing to me that the same people that want to limit lawsuit award size ("tort reform") are some of the same people that are against healthcare reform.

Rik01:I've never liked the metal bats gloves or catchers' pads or machine-created baseballs or finely curated fields or not chewing tobacco all game or the idea that the game could be played as a career or pitchers not pitching every other day for every pitch, feeling that they cheapen the game.